Underway Studio

The four printmakers that currently make up London’s Underway Studio are sat around a table, cups of tea in hand, trying to explain how they collectively make prints. Unusually for a studio such as this, every screen print that goes out under the Underway banner has been honed by all four artists. Working in this way sounds like a utopian dream, yet as anyone who has ever shared so much as a flat will tell you, it is a set-up that does not always produce harmonious results.

The mood around the table is very cheerful today, however. Although screen printing is a very tangible process, almost every Underway design will begin as a digital image. “We might start by quickly cutting a few bits but that will be an immediate brainstorm and then it’s put on the computer,” explains